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Originally Posted by Rickysa
I'm trying to learn all there is about astrophotography in about one day...trying to get the telescope set up to track the sun using some app (and I don't know how a smart phone works!) and attach the camera.
Stoked!!
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Is it an equatorial mount or an alt/az mount?
Equatorial mount, you can fake it to get plenty close enough. Rough align it to North, have the angle set to your latitude, then just grab and move the telescope tube around until the shadow it creates on the ground is the smallest, you will be pointed very close to the sun then. You can't really try to find it in the eyepiece, since it will be dead black everywhere until you get it on target (you have a big filter, right??)
Alt az, is a bit trickier...